Christopher and I "bumped " right into each other as he came searching for me as I was on my way to his room. He excitedly shared that he "had so much to tell me today." He rapidly began to share that he was flying on the airplane today, as Comic-con was this weekend in NY. He has been sharing his excitement about the event for weeks, and was excited to discuss the trip today. A wonderful topic to allow for expansion, reciprocity, and recognizing your "talking partner's" perspective. Supports to allow for increased conversational turns, and the use of cohesive ties and temporal links were facilitative. Cross pattern movement sequences were embedded within the session to allow for increased sustained attention within cycles of conversation. Additional topics included the menagerie of plush Mario characters he had brought with him today, allowing for expansion into the concepts of character traits which have been a recent focus during sessions.
Shaping and supporting cohesive responses to more open-ended question forms was an additional focus today as well.